Cristián Lávaque

Is this because something is set up wrong between PayPal and s2? Is this due to the fact the s2pro version is not yet insalled/functioning properly?

I doubt it, but maybe getting s2Member Pro to work correctly helps. I had not seen this problem before, so I’m not sure what it is. Coud you post the shortcode you used for the button? And could you show me a screenshot of your PayPal setting where the style is to see its name as its there?

I’m sorry I don’t understand what you are asking me to do. Are you asking my to list the folders at the FTP or just what the plugins folder looks like inside? I’m not sure.

It is possible that when you extracted s2Member Pro from the zip file, you ended up with an extra folder, so WordPress is not finding the files where they should be. Like:
/wp-content/plugins/s2member-pro[hilite mono]/s2member-pro[/hilite]/… Could you verify that’s not the case?

This may also help: s2Member® » Pro » Install/Upgrade Instructions

Right, you can edit the role from his profile edit page.

You should also add the “paypal” as the gateway and the subscr. ID so that notifications from PayPal about him can be used by s2Member to update the account (auto EOT behavior).

But don’t populate the EOT time, it should be blank and s2Member will populate it when PayPal notifies that the subscription ended.

I hope that helps. :)

Those are the ideas I had, but I’ll post an update if I think of anything else, of course.

I think the export-import idea may work, let me know if it helped, or if you have other questions, I’ll be glad to assist as I can.

No, there isn’t a free trial for s2Member Pro, sorry.

About looking at it first, if I remember correctly, the s2Member Pro intro video shows the pro-forms generators. Video » s2Member® Pro Intro

But it possible that just looking at the shortcode for a free registration pro-form will help too. This one would give the user Level 1 for a month before the Auto EOT Behavior (e.g. demotion to Level 0) happens:

[[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form register="1" level="1" ccaps="" desc="Signup now for Free!" custom="yoursite.com" tp="1" tt="M" captcha="clean" /]]

I hope that helps. :)

Hi There.

You can verify that s2Member is installed correctly going to s2Member’s navigation menu and looking at the very bottom for “s2Member Pro Info”. If you find it, then it’s installed and active.

About adding more levels, you can do that following the instructions here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Membership Levels/Labels[/hilite].

To enable more gateways to work with, please go here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Other Gateways[/hilite]

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Nigel.

You can try deactivating s2Member to see if that changes the Authors list in the dropdown for a post, but I remember seeing this problem mentioned in the WP forums, where s2Member had nothing to do with. You may want to try deactivating other plugins too, to see if that makes a difference.

I hope that helps.

Hi Raz.

1) I want to look some pages (by making 2 different types of user acess levels/groups, which are not charged for)

You mean “lock”? Yeah, you can protect pages with levels that users can have. This doesn’t require s2Member Pro.

2) I need to make a registration form which visitors will access all via the front end.

Ah, s2Member Pro has the pro-forms, which allow registration (paid or free) on the front end.

3) The registration form should be able to have drop downs and check boxes (as I have one type of user who I dont want to access the full protected site, which I will be able to identify from their drop down selection)

The pro-forms don’t have dropdowns for type of access, but you can add drop downs for profile fields using the s2Member custom profile fields. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

These profile fields can’t be used with the access restrictions, but you can definitely use them in conditionals to protect content.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals[/hilite]
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› PHP/API Constants[/hilite]

You could also use custom capabilities and do a customization that allows the user to pick them before purchasing.
Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)
http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1604

4) Then after they have filled in their registration form, I want the member plugin to automatiacally do one of the following two scenarios

a) Give full access to the newly registered member (so to put them in user group 1)
b) To not give full access to the newly registered member based on them selecting a certian category from the drop down option at registration (so this would put them in user group 2)

a) Yes. When the user gets the level required for the protected content, he will have access to it.

b) Yes, either because he got the level for the other content, or because your conditional checks his choice in the custom profile field. If you used custom capabilities, then pages/posts can be protected with these too, but can also be used in conditionals.

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Let us know if you have more questions. I hope that helps. :)

Not sure.

We are close to a beta testing phase. Not sure how close, or how long the phase will last, though. The new version is a complete rewrite, so the whole thing will be under test and bug zapping, not just a few new features. I don’t want to give an estimate in case I’m still off. I did want to let you know that it’s coming so you don’t lose hope.

We’ll announce when we have something more certain to announce. :)

Hi David.

I answer this in my reply to the post you linked to. http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/restore-or-recover-sennet-after-deactivated/#post-26938

One thing I didn’t mention is that you can probably recover the data another way:

– Make a backup of what you have now, if you’d lose new stuff restoring back to the backup.
– Then restore the backup you have from before the deactivation.
– Use the Options and User export tools to make a backup of s2Member.
– Restore the new backup you created in the first step.
– Import the s2Member Options and Users from the third step.

[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export[/hilite]

Let me know if it helps. :)

I’m not sure what specific symptom it may have, but it’d be an unusual behavior from what’s expected, like what you experienced.

Hi David.

I’m not sure why you’d lose all options and data if you had Deactivation Safeguards active. Maybe you do have the setting enabled now, but it wasn’t before s2Member got deactivated?

In any case, s2Member stores the custom profile fields for users in the usermeta table, but the definitions would be in the options table, if I’m not mistaken. Postmeta may have some s2Member stuff too.

If the backup is recent, wouldn’t it be simpler to restore it complete?

I hope that helps. :)

Thanks for the screenshot. The only difference I noticed in yours, is that for rules 2, 3 and 4 you have [hilite mono].+?[/hilite] instead of [hilite mono].*?[/hilite].

Could you fix that and test again? Thanks. :)